Picture from the National Archives of Australia
World War 2 heroine Nancy Wake passed away at age 98 on Sunday. Born in New Zealand and raised in Australia, Wake moved to London as a teenager, and then Paris. A trained journalist, Wake committed herself to fighting Nazis after she interviewed Adolf Hitler...

The woman who operates Cat House on the Kings–the largest cat rescue in the world–has been reduced to a “crazy cat lady” in the media. Since Lynea Lattanzio founded the California refuge 19 years ago, The Cat House on the Kings has saved over 18,000 cats and 5,000 dogs and currently...

Apparently the Casey Anthony verdict (SPOILER ALERT: not guilty of murder) has caused a lot of people to question or lose their faith in the U.S. justice system.
The Casey Anthony verdict.
Not the (mostly men of color) wrongfully convicted and imprisoned, and even put to death?
Not the rape kit backlogs?
Not...

It agreed to pull one of its irritating commercials. This one has been pissing me off since it began running, and it runs a lot.
In it, a thin white woman is seen staring into an office refrigerator, gazing at a delectable cheesecake. Her inner monologue promises to have only a tiny piece, because...

“We’ve decided not to share Storm’s sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm’s lifetime (a more progressive place? …).”
That is how Kathy Witterick and her husband, David Stocker, announced...

In the past four months, 916 anti-abortion bills have been proposed at the state-level. I have sat by and watched as this happened, feeling helpless and incapable of giving coverage to all of it. A sampling:
Connecticut
Florida
Indiana
Iowa
Minnesota
Texas
And today, the U.S. House passed H.R. 3, the...

Step 1: Use women’s health—which, unfortunately, is CONTROVERSIAL in this country!—as a bargaining chip in the federal budget battle, holding the country hostage and threatening a government shut-down if they don’t get their way;
Step 2: Watch as people lash out at reproductive rights advocates...

The Good Men Project Magazine went live online last summer. The GMP calls itself “a gathering place for thoughtful men with a conscience.” The articles are indeed thoughtful pieces on a wide range of topics, without the anxious masculinity that pervades mainstream men’s magazines. Once...

Just stopping by to say hello and share with you these videos of two three! amazing Congresswomen speaking out against the Pence Amendment on the House floor. The Pence Amendment would cut off federal funds to Planned Parenthood.
I am simultaneously shaking in anger and beaming with pride. Representatives...

Feminists who are critical of porn are often painted with the “anti-sex” brush. I’ve always maintained that porn itself is often anti-sex. A pair of articles in New York Magazine has demonstrated why I see things that way. The first–“They Know What Boys Want”–consists...

Via Clepsydrée @ Flickr.
I am not worthy of calling Nawal El Saadawi an “Honorary Harpy” but I will categorize this post as such anyway. Nawal El Saadawi is renowned Egyptian human rights activist, feminist, medical doctor and former political prisoner who has written extensively on Arab...

Kelley Williams-Bolar is a black single mother who was in school studying to become a teacher. Williams-Bolar lives in a housing project in Akron, Ohio, but she sent her two children to a school in the wealthier Copley-Fairlawn District, where her father resides. She did so out of concerns for the girls’...